His past credits include working on Lion King 2 and Prince of Egypt as a story artist and Lilo and Stitch as a director.
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The studio reportedly paid nearly $1 million for just the rights to the concept.
So what would an emoji film look like? This appears to be a zeitgeist moment for these ideograms that hatched in Japan and have spread worldwide.
I’ll forgo the usual “Hollywood is officially out of ideas” speech and just get right to it; Deadline reports that Sony Pictures Animation is developing a film centering around Emoji’s, you know, those little images that almost everyone on the planet has sent to each other at some point or another. WME reps Leondis. Siegel is a writer and actor who has sold several shows to Fox and NBC and was most recently as producer on the TBS series Men At Work.
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We have no idea how a film that’s based exclusively on smartphone texting technology could possibly have any sort of narrative, but then again, “Angry Birds” is due out next summer, so we suppose anything is possible. This Friday, Sony will release their new Adam Sandler movie Pixels in which beloved video game characters come to life.
